Nansings,

In ancient Babylon, where they were building the tower, was Nimrod still ruling there, when the LORD confounded the languages?

Apparently, Noah and Shem were living there, as well.

And so was Canaan, Nimrod's uncle, whom Noah has cursed.

He didn't migrate to the land called after his name, Canaan, until after the languages were confounded.

Abraham wasn't born until about 13 years after Noah had died, but Shem was still alive.

Was Nimrod still alive when Abraham lived?

How many years had passed, from the time that the languages were confounded at Babel, until Abraham was growing up, learning about it?

Did Babylon remain a city, lived in, after the confounding of the languages, possibly by Chaldeans?

It also seems that during the Assyrian empire, a number of people from Babylon, were transplanted into Samaria, after the ten tribes went into captivity.

II Kings 17:24 And the king of Assyria brought men from Babylon, and from Cuthah, and from Ava, and from Hamath, and from Sepharvaim, and placed them in the cities of Samaria instead of the children of Israel: and they possessed Samaria, and dwelt in the cities thereof.

Did ancient Babylon remain lived in from the time of Nimrod, until the last of the Jewish community, passed, or left, c. 1000 AD?

Many of the Jews remained in Babylon, even after some returned to Jerusalem with Zerubbabel.

The Jewish community in Babylon was large, and had great influence, where the rabbis developed the Babylonian Talmud.

The community was significant, even in new testament times, and a number eventually believed the gospel, and were written to by Peter.

There were some sources that claimed a few other people lived in the area of ancient Babylon until the 12th century.

But by the 17th century it was desolate.

When I worked at the refinery in Baiji, Iraq, in 1986, I didn't have any free time to visit any ancient sites.

One of the other people, in the US company I worked for, did have some vacation time.

He went and visited the ancient site of Babylon.

At that time, Saddam Hussein was involved in a project to rebuild ancient Babylon, but that ended with the Gulf War.

Then, at the time of the Second Gulf War the US had a military camp on the site.

Was that to show the world that we're the "new Babylon"?

If not, then why did we do it?